Freedom From Addiction
—Ester Nicholson

The 12-step principles to overcome addictions, combined with New Thought teachings, can lead to soul recovery, says Ester Nicholson. After years of experiencing addiction and domestic violence, Nicholson says, “I had hit such a level of brokenness that I had no choice but to want a God experience more than anything else.” Read more of Nicholson’s personal journey and eventual triumph in the July issue. To learn more about her 12 Keys to Handling Addiction, view her video.

Freedom from Pain

Recalling pleasant memories when experiencing pain can serve as a natural pain reliever, new research shows. The pleasant memories cause your brain to release dopamine, and this turns off those parts of your brain that release stress neurochemicals. Learning more about natural healing techniques in the Science & Spirituality column in the July issue.

Not Something for Nothing
—Ernest Holmes

This Science does not promise something for nothing. It does, however, tell us that if we comply with the Law, the Law complies with us. No individual can demonstrate peace and cling to unhappiness. The individual can demonstrate resignation and call it peace, but it will not be peace. No individual can jump in the water and remain dry. This is contrary to law and to reason. No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such a limitation! The Law itself must be willing to give, because in so giving, Life is self-expressed. ~ The Science of Mind, page 267

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Spiritual Families @ Home

This summer, Centers for Spiritual Living Youth Ministries are teaching The Golden Thread of Truth. The stories center around the universal truths that are present in all the world’s religions. Share these enriching messages and fun crafts with your children and grandchildren at home at your leisure!

Golden Thread #1: You are Free to Create Your Life

Our Resistant-Free Nature

How can a non-human item want or desire something? Maybe it can’t. Maybe the truth is since a caterpillar or turtle or salmon or tree has no resistance, it fulfills its desires every time. That would imply that the only thing holding us back from realizing our desires it our resistance to it.

Our resistance can come in many forms, a feeling that we don’t deserve it, or it is not possible or someone or something is blocking it. The law of creative freedom as in all desires, are completely free - without hindrance of any kind, and is universally true for each of us, just as it is for each animal and plant.

To Create Freely is to allow our desire to seek expression. A thought or urge wants to be made into form

• Just as a caterpillar wants to become a butterfly
• Just as a salmon wants to return to its birthplace to spawn
• Just as a turtle wants to return to its birthplace to nest
• Just as a tree wants to leaf in the spring

When Jesus said: “Resist Not,” He meant that non-recognition of evil is the only way to avoid it. This is true according to the law of cause and effect, for what we persist in recognizing we persist in holding in place. That which we refuse to recognize, we neutralize, and it is no longer there so far as we are concerned.” ~ The Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes, page 303

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